{"id":7877,"date":"2010-11-04T00:30:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T06:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7877"},"modified":"2011-03-23T23:18:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T04:18:46","slug":"academy-tries-to-de-stigmatize-uavs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/04\/academy-tries-to-de-stigmatize-uavs\/","title":{"rendered":"Academy Tries to De-Stigmatize UAVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Air Force Times<\/em> notes the push by the US Air Force Academy to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2010\/10\/af-academy-wants-RPA-career-103010w\/\">inspire cadets about a career field most still dread<\/a>: UAVs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Flying a drone isn\u2019t sexy \u2014 and the cadets at the Air Force Academy here don\u2019t pretend that it is&#8230;\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Still, there\u2019s a stigma attached to remotely piloted aircraft, an inherent \u201cuncoolness\u201d the academy is trying to overcome with its own training program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we are trying to do is get them excited about the capabilities that exist out there, as well as the opportunities that exist for career opportunities and leadership,&#8221; said Lt. Gen. Michael Gould, the academy\u2019s superintendent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article also contains a revealing look at the sometimes cynical &#8212; and bold &#8212; reactions of military cadets, even during a General&#8217;s briefing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Academy] dean Brig. Gen. Dana Born&#8230;drew sarcastic cheers when she talked about RPAs as a career option in a 2009 speech&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After her speech, Born pulled a cadet aside and asked him why the cadets responded so loudly when she showed pictures of the Predator, an RPA flown in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought they got it and understood how important they are,&#8221; Born said. &#8220;But he said they were just being sarcastic.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article notes General Born may be reassured by the increasing enrollment and positive comments about the UAV program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force Times notes the push by the US Air Force Academy to inspire cadets about a career field most still dread: UAVs. Flying a drone isn\u2019t sexy \u2014 and the cadets at the Air Force Academy here don\u2019t pretend that it is&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[58,13,1136,189,1628,2,352,232,53,65],"class_list":["post-7877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-afghanistan","tag-aircraft","tag-dana-born","tag-michael-gould","tag-mike-gould","tag-military","tag-predator","tag-rpa","tag-uav","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}